Given the very poor quality of bank, retail, and street camera images, the nefarious take a very practical view of the possibility of future legal problems.
A magazine I look to alternatively for tips about style and laughs about style wrote, “If you don’t have hair, you don’t have a face. You have a head.” Hmm. Okay. I’m fine with having a head, but I was a little concerned to discover I don’t have a face. But maybe I already knew what they were getting at. Because for whatever reason, be it out of desperation or freedom, I’m prone to changing a couple of accessories on my non-face. Since my prescription hasn’t changed in 20 years, I can splurge on glasses (or contacts, if I want to further non-face my face) to rotate through and tweak my appearance. I like a little facial hair, too, though I can’t bring myself to get too creative with that. No Van Dyke or goatee, thank you. No hillbilly plume. Not even a Mr. Clean level of bushiness. Definitely no mustache. Just a full beard trimmed to a clipper setting of #1 or #2.
Just those two things will get me a little extra scrutiny on a regular basis at the border on Sunday mornings, when I swim in Canada at the Windsor Aquatic Centre (which, if you ever get a chance to check it out, do so). So maybe I was right. Maybe I don’t have a face. Or maybe border-patrol agents are that suspicious of everyone, and the difference between me and the photo on my license is as easy a target as any. (That, and the idea that a carload of us would drive to another country in the wee hours to go swimming. “Don’t you have any pools you can use in Michigan?” “Not like that one, sir.”)
I could find out easily enough. All I’d have to do is buy the latest iPhone or probably Android and see what their facial-recognition feature has to say about it. Or not. For what those cost, I could buy several new pairs of glasses.
There’s a reason why people tend not to like photos of themselves. What people are used to (most people anyway) is their features as seen in a mirror, i.e. reversed. So, before having a fit about whether a picture is or isn’t a good likeness, first hold it up to a mirror and see if that changes your opinion.
nosirrom over 5 years ago
When he gets older he’ll say the same thing about the DMV.
asrialfeeple over 5 years ago
With a POTUS who seems to think the sound of windmills gives you cancer, pretty much everything is possible.
pschearer Premium Member over 5 years ago
There’s an idea. I can use photo-aging software on my high school yearbook picture and see how I turned out.
okiejoe over 5 years ago
What would happen if Caulfield transferred into Calvin’s school?
MS72 over 5 years ago
the doctor’s office gave me a legal release document that included a provision for facial recognition
sandpiper over 5 years ago
Given the very poor quality of bank, retail, and street camera images, the nefarious take a very practical view of the possibility of future legal problems.
jvn over 5 years ago
Track? No. Avoid? Yes.
fuzzbucket Premium Member over 5 years ago
Maybe because the image you see in the mirror is reversed from what the camera sees. The picture is right. Your perception is wrong.
hyddyr over 5 years ago
Sigh. School pics and fingerprinting and border crossing conflated so someone brings in gun registry. All in Frazz commentary.
Night-Gaunt49[Bozo is Boffo] over 5 years ago
PostsFrazz13 hrs ·
A magazine I look to alternatively for tips about style and laughs about style wrote, “If you don’t have hair, you don’t have a face. You have a head.” Hmm. Okay. I’m fine with having a head, but I was a little concerned to discover I don’t have a face. But maybe I already knew what they were getting at. Because for whatever reason, be it out of desperation or freedom, I’m prone to changing a couple of accessories on my non-face. Since my prescription hasn’t changed in 20 years, I can splurge on glasses (or contacts, if I want to further non-face my face) to rotate through and tweak my appearance. I like a little facial hair, too, though I can’t bring myself to get too creative with that. No Van Dyke or goatee, thank you. No hillbilly plume. Not even a Mr. Clean level of bushiness. Definitely no mustache. Just a full beard trimmed to a clipper setting of #1 or #2.
Just those two things will get me a little extra scrutiny on a regular basis at the border on Sunday mornings, when I swim in Canada at the Windsor Aquatic Centre (which, if you ever get a chance to check it out, do so). So maybe I was right. Maybe I don’t have a face. Or maybe border-patrol agents are that suspicious of everyone, and the difference between me and the photo on my license is as easy a target as any. (That, and the idea that a carload of us would drive to another country in the wee hours to go swimming. “Don’t you have any pools you can use in Michigan?” “Not like that one, sir.”)
I could find out easily enough. All I’d have to do is buy the latest iPhone or probably Android and see what their facial-recognition feature has to say about it. Or not. For what those cost, I could buy several new pairs of glasses.
AndrewSihler over 5 years ago
There’s a reason why people tend not to like photos of themselves. What people are used to (most people anyway) is their features as seen in a mirror, i.e. reversed. So, before having a fit about whether a picture is or isn’t a good likeness, first hold it up to a mirror and see if that changes your opinion.